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 I. UCA'J'O IV DISTRICT. sot

Criminal and 7 ciril court» with a regular police force. including city and cantonment police, of 1764 ofﬁcers and men. and a village watchor rural police numbering 1447 men. The District is sub-divided for revenue purposes into the three (41/13/75 of Lucknow, Mohanldlganj and Malihribdd; and for police purposes into t3 circles (flail/cit). The District jail contained a daily average of .to 5 prisoners in r883.

Education was afforded in t8$5 by l 37 schools, supported or aided by Government, and inspected by the Education Department, with a total roll on the 3m! March 1883 of 6609 pupils. This is exclusive of unaided and unimpeded “hook, and the Census Report of r88r returned 7760 boys and 719 girls as under instruction, besides 26,369 males and 1438 females able to read and write, but not under instruction. The principal educational institutions are the Arts College at Lucknow with its law and medical classes, and attached High School; the Sanskrit College. and the La MartiniL-re College for the education of Europeans and liurasians.

The only regular municipality in the District is that of Lucknow city ; but a housotax for police and conservancy purposes is raised in the following towns—Mari, )lalihr’tbzid, Aniethi, Bijnaur, Cliinhat, Arnani- mnj. ltaunja, and Gosainganj.

Mdiml (lama—Average annual rainfall in the District generally, 37'6 inches ; in lmcknow city, tit-4 inches. Mean annual temperature, 77‘8' F. In the year 1883, the maximum temperature in May, the hottest month, was n5“; the mimmum in February, the coldest month, was 383’.

The prevailing endemic diseases of the District are fevers, skin diseases, and bowel complaints. The most common kind of {ever is intermittent ol' the qumidian type; the quartan type is com‘ parativcly rare. Remitteut {ever is not uncommon. Cholera is seldom absent from the District. There is no year in which a con sidemble number of deaths is not ascribed to this disease. Both forms of cholera (sporadic and epidemic) are met with. The disease appears at the setting in of the rains, and is generally prevalent during the months of July, August, September, October, and November. Smallpox generally makes its appearance in March, and attains its maximum intensity in the months of April, May, and June. it begins to decline during the rains, and almost disappears by the middle of the cold weather. Small-pox rages with virulence among all ranks of society; and, in the absence of general vaccination, numbers are carried oll‘ by it every year. The total number of deaths registered from fevers inLueltnow District (excluding the city) in 1883 was 8044, giving a rate of tr6¢ per thousand of the rural population. An epidemic ofsntaleox in the Same year caused 7500 deaths. or a rate of 16-41 per thousand. The total number of registered deaths in r885 in the District (outside